Moumita Bhattacharya discusses the evolution of Netflix’s ranking systems, from the multi-model architecture to a Unified Contextual Recommender (UniCoRn). She explains how they built a task-agnostic...
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Read moreAMD has released three distinct generations of its 3D V-Cache technology, which initially appeared in the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in 2022. The kernel of the idea...
Read moreCreating complex objects can get messy. You’ve probably written constructors with too many parameters, struggled with optional arguments, or created objects that require multiple setup steps....
Read moreWe know that while the cost per byte of persistent storage has dropped hugely over the years, it’s still a pain to fork out for a...
Read moreThe widely-used FreeType library used for rendering text onto bitmaps has landed a significant optimization for its LCD filtering code path for Microsoft ClearType-like rendering. Thanks...
Read moreAI is driving unprecedented investment for massive data centers and an energy supply that can support its huge computational appetite. One potential source of electricity for...
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Read morePC Gamer has run an amusing review of the scx_horoscope scheduler for Linux, which uses astrology to optimize scheduling decisions. The scheduler is full of bizarre...
Read moreIt’s rare that a web product lasts 25 years, given how fast the industry cycles through technologies. But this month marks a quarter century of Drupal,...
Read moreAfter three years of development, the team behind Skip, a solution designed to create iOS and Android apps from a single Swift/SwiftUI codebase, has announced their...
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